Portrait of a Man Attributed to Gaspare Traversi Italian At some point in its history, this portrait of an unknown man acquired the signature and date that appear across the right background: "Goya 1780." The unflinching, not altogether flattering, approach to the sitter might evoke the Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746–1828), but this portrait’s firmly contoured outlines and slightly bulbous features are more convincingly the work of Traversi, an artist best known for his slightly ribald genre scenes, such as The Met’s Teasing a Sleeping Girl (ca. 1760), in which the figures often veer tow
Portrait of a Man Attributed to Gaspare Traversi Italian At some point in its history, this portrait of an unknown man acquired the signature and date that appear across the right background: "Goya 1780." The unflinching, not altogether flattering, approach to the sitter might evoke the Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746–1828), but this portrait’s firmly contoured outlines and slightly bulbous features are more convincingly the work of Traversi, an artist best known for his slightly ribald genre scenes, such as The Met’s Teasing a Sleeping Girl (ca. 1760), in which the figures often veer toward Portrait of a Man 437843
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Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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